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GALANA provides a forum for researchers working on language acquisition in different contexts (L1 acquisition, L2 acquisition, bilingualism, language disorders) from a generative linguistic perspective.

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-REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS-

The Department of Linguistics at McGill University is pleased to announce the second meeting of

Please do not submit any abstracts before March 1st 2006. A confirmation email will follow within 48 hours of receipt of your abstract. If you do not receive an email confirmation, please contact us at galana.2006mcgill.ca.

Talks will be 20 minutes +10 minutes for discussion.

You will be informed by May 15th 2006 as to whether your paper has been accepted.

The abstract should include a title but no names or affiliation.

Please include the word count at the bottom of the abstract.

Submission limit: no more than 2 submissions per person, only one as primary author.

Abstracts should be submitted as email attachments, in pdf format, to galana.2006mcgill.ca

In the body of your email, please include

Author name(s) Author affiliation(s) Address and email of 1st author Status: student/faculty member/other Preference for paper or poster. If your paper is not accepted for oral presentation, please indicate if you are willing to present it as a poster.

This lustrum workshop offers a forum of discussion between researchers from different fields of writing research (theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics or language education), from different countries and working on different languages.

SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (NOTICE: CHANGE OF DATES)

Constraints on Spelling Changes Fifth International Workshop on Writing Systems Center for Language Studies, Interfaculty Research Unit for Language and Speech, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, October 5 - October 6, 2006.

The aim of this series of workshops is to focus on all aspects of scientific research of written language. In particular, we welcome:

- Psycholinguistic research on the influence of deep or more surface orthographies on pronunciation and morphological awareness, on learning to read and spell, and on dysfunctions in reading and spelling.

- Research evaluating alternative spelling methods, within one language, or across languages, taking not only the perspective of the writer, but also addressing the question how (different) writing systems take the reader's perspective into account when representing the sounds of a language.

- Computational models that shed light on the relation between sounds on the one hand, and letters, diacritics and punctuation on the other hand.

The topic of the present workshop, constraints on spelling changes, is inspired by the ongoing spelling reforms for languages such as Dutch and German. It will address the (limited) possibilities of optimizing writing systems, such as learnability, and linguistic, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, historical and practical constraints. We plan to publish a selection of papers of the workshop as an issue of the journal 'Written Language and Literacy'.

PARTICIPATION: Researchers who want to attend the workshop without presenting a paper are also invited. Such participants should register at the address above, iwtssecrmpi.nl. Information on lodging and travel directions, the program and the abstracts of the accepted papers will be circulated electronically well before the workshop.